session pga memory value is much higher than Sort_Area_Size

From: Srikannan Gopalsamy <sgopalsamy_at_walmart.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 14:53:44 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.00312C89.20010529145816@fatcity.com>

We've set sort_area_size to 8M, but the session pga memory usage shows much higher than 8M, in fact its about 176M.

The heap value for the shadow process also confirms the size of the PGA area.
01A40000 180496K read/write/exec [ heap ]

I thought that the PGA size should not go beyond sort_area_size.

Are we missing anything here?

Thank for your help.

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Author: Srikannan Gopalsamy
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